More than 80,000 workers, officers and ministerial staffs of National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) continued to stage protest across the country for the second consecutive day on Sunday. Jobless protestors (males and females) organised a rally in Multan that terminated at the Prime Minister's house.
They said that 'The Federal Government should not disband the NCHD to save thousands of feeder schools and its 80,000 employees.' There should be enough funds released for running its operation across the country and the NCHD has forwarded a summery to the Prime Minister, Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani for releasing funds to the sacked Commission for running its operations across the country, they the protestors added.
The text of summery revealed that the Human Resource and the investment might go wasted that will force another five-year investment if the government decides to establish a parallel system.
'The Commission further requested to the Prime Minister to save thousands of its poor employees from the curse of unemployment,' an official of the NCHD told on Monday. Earlier, the Commission was directed to issue one-month advance notices to terminate all its employees with effect of August 1, 2008, which had been served on all staff members, the summery added.
'Unrest prevails among the sacked NCHD employees as they are protesting and demanding security of their jobs. It is possible only if the PM takes note of this serious issue, as future of nearly 80,000 employees are at stake,' the employees said.
The also said that a PC-1 of Rs2.7 billion had been submitted to the government through Cabinet Division, which is responsible for NCHD's operation across the country. 'But later, the Commission has been asked to reduce its expanses, as the national exchequer lacks funds and the PC-1 amounting Rs1.5 billion had been with the government to meet its expanses,' they maintained.
The NCHD employees described that no funds had so far been issued to the Commission. If government had released the required funds than we would take back the termination letters from all the sacked employees, the challenged.
The NCHD was the best example of Public-Private Partnership, as government, community and corporate sector were funding it to run its operations across the country, they added.